iPhones, iPads may be susceptible to hackers

From staff and wire reports

July 8th, 2011

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[caption id="attachment_67744" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="With the security hole, an attacker can get malicious software onto a device by tricking its owner into clicking an infected PDF file."][/caption]

A new security hole has opened up in Apple Inc.'s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, raising alarms about the susceptibility of some of the world's hottest tech gadgets to hacker attacks.

Flaws in the software running those devices came to light after a German security agency warned that criminals could use them to steal confidential data off the devices. Apple, the world's largest technology company by market value, said...

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